Symbol or letter.



UNITED STATES PATENT, OFFICE.

HENRY SEGALL, or NEW YonK, 1:. Y.

SYMBOL 0R LETTER.

' Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Man- 1918.

Application filed November 21, 1914. Serial'No. 873,320.

To all who-m it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY SEGALL, a citi zen of the United States of America, residing at New York city, in the county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Symbolsor Letters, of which the following is a spec1- fication.

- My invention relates to signs and symbols such as letters and other symbols and it con sists in a symbol or letter combined with an adhesive of the character hereinafterdescribed, whereby the symbol may be readily attached to any material, in any location,

without tools, other than the hands, willmaintain its position in the desired location and yet may be detached without tools,

without. injury to the symbol or to the material from which it is detached, and is then ready for subsequent attachment in the same or a new locality.

Signs have-been heretofore made of individual letters, attached'to a backing, such for instance as a bulletin board, by cutting the letters out of paper and gumming them to the board and letting them dry in place, but such letters cannot be removed without moistening them so as to reduce the cohesive strength of the adhesive and when that is done the letter is almost certain to be injured. Indeed the usual course is to throw the letters away when they are removed from the board.

In other instances, metal letters are cemented to a backing of some kind, say a window, but in such cases the cement sets and then it is impossible to remove'them without using a tool for the purpose and almost impossible to remove them with the tool without injury to the letter or to the backing.

At the same time it is often desirabletoplace a letter or a symbol in one location, temporarily, and to remove it shortly afterward and also to place letters-and symbols more permanently, say on the window of a store which is leased for but one year,

though the occupant does not wish to incur the expense of having the sign or symbol painted in the said location, or it may be that he has a set of valuable letters which he does not desire to] permanently attach to the freehold of which he is not the owner.

To meet the want thus expressed, I have devised a letter or symbol which may be easily applied withouttools, will remain in position as long as desired, but may also be removed without tools, without marring the I letter or symbol or the backing or support and which when removed, remains adapted for use in the former location or in a new location, at the pleasure of the owner.

Thus with a few alphabets or a few sets of symbols, one may be ready to place any sign involving a combination of units selected from, those sets, and, having used them, to return them to the sets so that they may be used overv in the same or in new combinations without the necessity of purchasing a new sign for each new use.

Figure 1, is a face view ofa window bearing a sign composed of letters embodying my invention.

Fig. 2, is a reverse view of one of said letters.

' Fig. 3, is a vertical sectional view of. the letter of Fig. 2, taken on line 33 of Fig. 2, showing its support also.

Fig. 4, is a sectionalview of a material I find particularly useful in manufacturing symbols, attached to a support.

m In making the symbols, or letters, of my invention, I usually cut the form out of sheet celluloid or some other suitable substance,

then,on some portion of the symbol, I place'' any adhesive which hasfeatures of easy ap-. 'plication, removal by pressure such' as of the hand after some time, and permanence in its adhesive character w1thout the addition of fresh material, and whleh. 1s, 1n

short, continuously sticky will accomplish the desired result and be within the lines of my invention. I use the term continuously sticky to indicate the character of the adhesive which I use. It is diiferent from one which would stick fast when freshly prepared, but would soon become inert or dry so as not to adhere to a newly presented ob-- ject. My symbol is provided with an adhesive ready to attach itself to an ob ect and,

if removed from it by superior force, ready to reattach itself to the objector to attach.

itself to another object without being remoistened or reprepared in any particular and remains thus ready for an indefinite period.

5 In course of construction, I prefer, in general, to apply the adhesive a, a, to both ,40 one thing. This variety 35 0f the symbols which I use,

- sides of a strip of textile material 0, then apply the fabric thus rendered doubly adhesive, to the symbol 8.

the symbol, need not be covered with the same quality of adhesive matter as the other face. I sometimes make the adhesive which is applied to that side of the fabric which is to be in contact with the symbol, more tenacious than on the other side, or so com-' pounded that it would resist removal of the fabric from the symbol so strongly as to require more than a hand pull to remove it,

provided that the adhesive on the opposite face (what I may term the outer face-the one to be applied to the support B) is of the desired character and possessed of the qualities of adhesiveness to a degree suflicient to support the symbol, yielding under pressure such as the hand may furnish, and permanence in retaining its adhesiveness to a degree which will cause it to adhere to a backing or support when applied with hand pressure. At the same time this outer face (or yice versa) during manufacture, then uniting them by pressure and heat, the result being-an article-say a sheet of textile-faced celluloid, the fabric being so sunk into and held to the celluloid that it seems to become a part of the material itself. A section of such a structure securedj to a backing is shown at Fig. 4:, the celluloid being lettered C, the fabric 0', the adhesive on the outer face of the fabric a, and the backing or support B. When symbols are cut from That face of the 10 prepared strip 0, which is to be applied to port, though I prefer that location, but any location which will result in the holding of the letter to the support by means of the particular Variety of adhesive described,

Whether by means of interposed fabric or some other arrangement, comes within the purview of my invention. 7

' What I claim as my invention and desire tosecure by Letters-Patent, is

1. As a new article of manufacture, a symbol combined with a continuously sticky adhesive of a tenacity suflicient to support the weight of the symbol, but at the same time removable by hand pressure.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a sym bol combined witha piece of textile fabric, some exposed portion of the face of which is provided with a continuously sticky adhesive of a tenacity. suflicient to support the weight of the symbol, but at the same time removable by hand pressure.

3. As a new article of manufacture, a symbol combined with an adhesive carrying material having an adhesive upon the face adjacent to the symbol and a continuously sticky adhesive of atenaoity sufiicient-to support the weight of the symbol, but at the same time removable by hand pressure, upon the partadapted to be imposed upon a support.

4:. As a new article of manufacture, a symbol combined with an adhesive carrying material, having a continuously sticky adhesive upon the part adapted to be imposed upon a support and an adhesive of greater tenacity upon the face adjacent to the symbol.

In testimony whereof,I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 13th day of November, 1914.

HENRY SEGALL. Witnesses:

Jos. WRICKLY,

A. G. N. VERMILirA.

My particu- 

